16 August, 2016

WAYS TO BE HAPPY

Here is a collection on HOW TO BE HAPPY.

With an emphasis on Contentment, and coming from the WEF one can take this seriously!More on the agendaA well-stocked Netflix queue can go a long way toward pure and utter happiness, but sometimes there's still something missing.For those moments, it can help to fall back on the wisdom of history's greatest thinkers: Kierkegaard, Socrates, Thoreau, and the Buddha.Here's what philosophers discovered about happiness long before orange became the new black.1. "There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path" — Gautama Buddha, alive around 500 BC.2. "Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness" — Bertrand Russell lived in the early 1800s.3. "Happiness is the feeling that power increases — that resistance is being overcome" — Friedrich Nietzsche, alive in the late-19th century.4. "The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less" — Socrates, lived in 450 BC.5. "The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily" — Plato, lived in 4th century BC.6. "Happiness depends upon ourselves" — Aristotle, alive in Ancient Greece around 300 BC.7. "I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them" — John Stuart Mill, born in 1806.8. "The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large" — Confucius, lived in China around 500 BC.9. "The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not" — Seneca, born in Hispania in 4 BC.10. "If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present" — Lao Tzu, alive around 600 BC in China.11. "The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere." — Mencius, Chinese philosopher alive around 350 BC.12. "Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced" — Soren Kierkegaard, early 19th-century philosopher.13. "Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder" — Henry David Thoreau, born in 1817 in Massachusetts.